Friday, June 29, 2012

Malacañang
would not allow itself to take all the blame for the killing of
prosecution witnesses in the Maguindanao massacre case that saw 58
casualties, 32 of them local journalists.

At a press briefing,
presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said all the four witnesses who
were killed in separate instances had “politely declined” government’s
offer of security.

As though to clear the government of any liability
for the death of the fourth would-be-witness against the Ampatuan
family of Maguindanao, Lacierda urged the remaining witnesses in the
2009 carnage to reconsider the security and protection the government
had offered to them.

He said it was “unfortunate” that the witnesses
who refused government protection were being murdered one after the
other. “We will again offer them security. We do not want their lives
threatened, or in this case, terminated,” the presidential spokesman
said..... MORE